Tuesday, August 2, 2011

New Job - Agile Product Manager - Walnut Creek

My client is seeking an experienced Agile Product Manager to join their growing team. This is a 12 month+ contract in Walnut Creek. If you are interested, please contact Aileen @ aclark@kforce.com or 415-678-2321.


The Product Manager represents the Product Owner and the End-User/Customer – they are responsible for defining and scheduling the delivery of high quality output in line with business requirements and priorities.


Key Responsibilities of the Product Manager (Scrum Meetings):


• Meet with business stakeholders to discuss, define and capture requirements – User Research
• Consider Market conditions
• Manage the Product Management documentation- Product Backlog(s), Release Plan(s), Product Roadmap(s), Release Notes and any other Requirements-level notes/sketches
• Communicate and capture requirements in a way that people can understand them e.g. Themes, Epics, User Stories, Test Cases, UI sketches, Conditions of Satisfaction etc.
• Presentation of new user stories/requirements (this may also be done by the Product Owner)
• Document feedback from the development team (e.g. viability of stories and top-level effort estimates)
• Re-prioritize, expand and more clearly define the product backlog
• Add/remove user stories and conditions of satisfaction as necessary
• Introduction of user stories and agreed conditions of satisfaction to the development team
• Document level of effort estimated to deliver each user story – use these to drive prioritization and release planning
• Present the highest priority User Stories – and suggest the proposed scope of iteration (this may be done by the Product Owner)
• Negotiate top-level Sprint scope and ensure that requirements are fully understood
• Agree Sprint Objectives with development team – this is a collaborative process
• Update release plan further to the meeting and ensure that the Product Owner (and Key Stakeholders where appropriate) are aware of the Sprint scope

Requirements:


• Experience writing Stories, prioritization, effectively communicating with Development team
• User Research: i.e. Experience creating User Journeys
• Understand web development
• Understand data flow
• Understand how to create structures and systems
• Experience with JIRA and/or Rally
• Experience with Balsamiq
• Team uses Mac, so that would be a plus to have
• Usability Testing is nice to have


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